Mfw driving 100 miles to steal a copy of Women and Men at a uni

I go to a public uni where nobody is allowed inside unless they have a student id or are the guest of someone with a student id.

You could spend $100 and get a legal copy.

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Bumpity bump. Hurry the fuck up.

>spending money on books

GODSPEED user THE LORD KNOWS ITS WORTH IT

It's a shame such a brilliant mind has been reduced to a meme.

Fucking pleb:

libgen.io/ads.php?md5=E0593B4F413E01C0543495D0E5A7F8A6

Has a sense of locus been erased from your memory?

Don't end up like Neal from 'Good Old Neon', k :^)

jesus christ it's not worth it
it's not that good
just because it got the DFW star of approval doesn't mean it's some pomo ur-text
you could probably just find it for like $10 if you went to a used bookstore for once in your life, that's how I got mine

this is not about merely ingesting the contents of the novel in the easiest way possible. this is much bigger.

hey, user, explain me what is 'ur-text', i've read that word in an essay, can't really find anything about it

its behind locked doors and you won't bust in because you're a wussy

Basically like a text that's influential enough to the point that it's necessary to read it to understand other texts
classic example is the bible

It's hit and miss. Where I did my undergrad did not give a fuck, not does the school I'm going to for grad school. Also various Midwestern universities I've visited do not give a fuck.

"Ur-" means "earliest version", although, judging by the context, I think that user wanted to call it an extremely important and great work.
For example, it is believed that Shakespeare based Hamlet on an earlier work,so-called Ur-Hamlet.

Isn't it getting reprinted soon?

Aren't you getting reprinted soon?

Nope, he won't allow it for some reason, or so the NYRB editors told us. AFAIK nobody knows why.

LOL REKT

good luck

Don't forget to come back and tell how it went OP.

is -ur- an acronym or something?

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-

Germans did it.

No, it's just Urtext.

It's a German preffix, like uber-.

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Special collections requires a college ID. At my school it also requires an online account. Without these, you won't even see the book. You are not allowed to go up and down the shelves of sp. col. If you do, security will be called long before you find the book, and you'll be escorted out like the trash you are.

DFW didn't even like it

bump

What programs work so that I can actualy read the downloaded book? Never used libgen.

Without this absurdly expensive book I'll never complete Meme Trilogy II (W&M/TR/TT) :((

Germans did 911

The ironic thing is he's probably going to spend more on this little road trip of his than he would've on a copy of the book.

or you can wait a couple months and get it for 20$

ya
it stands for u r stupid

Lol idk why you guys are posting dfw pics and saying dfw liked it. He straight up said he thought it sucked and 'chugged sewer water' or something. He said he liked lookout cartridge and was inspired by it when he wrote ij, but women and men he unambiguously called trash.

OP the only thing to do is completely immerse yourself in what Joseph McElroys life would have been like, to live entirely around 50s-60s decor, live in the same city, do everything he ever did, do the same jobs etc, and then set out to write an exact copy of the book

Calibre.

Which city?

boomp

OP here. I fucked up. I got into the library fine and was able to locate the "special collections" section. As i suspected, it was located behind a counter with a worker (mid 40s fat woman, of fucking course) in charge of handling the books. I told her i was looking for a book called Women and Men. Immediately she asked for my student ID. I pretended to look for it in my backpack and said "shoot, seems i forgot it. Can i still just take a look at it. I just need to check the edition. I'll stay right here at the counter." She hesitated at first but said that it was ok and went to the shelves in the back and brought with her the three inch mammoth Women and Men. My heart started pounding, blood started flowing more rapidly to my penis. She set the book down at the counter. I kept my eyes down and studied the book. As i finally touched the glorious dust jacket i couldnt resist. I quickly picked up the book and started running away. Immediately 3 obese black women in mall cop uniforms came out of nowhere flying through the air headfirst right at me. My 120 pound frame couldnt support the gorillaesque mass crashing down on me and i had no choice but to lay face down while being subdued. The lady behind the counter then gave me a grin and said, "Never underestimate Women. And Men are pathetic"

I was finally released from library security after an intense 2 hour interrogation in which i was injected with estrogen and forced to sign a contract stating i would never take advantage of women again

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There are better authors to rip off that way.

lol

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Glad my posts that I steal from Uni libraries is influencing people. God speed user and special collection usually means you can't check it out, you just have to find a way to get access to it

One of the best threads I've seen. Thanks, OP.

>100 miles
>100 dollar book
>possible arrest
Brilliant OP. Hope it's worth the gas money to have a library copy of Women and Men

Are you the black user who steals book? I remember that thread.

This is completely accurate. Everyone ITT has no idea what's going on

No one actually thinks dfw liked it, they're just dfwposting because he's this board's mascot.

Who the fuck is dfw?

I'm gonna get sincere on your ass, bitchboy.

No but seriously. I would like to know, and I'd rather interact with another person than just google it.

How the fuck do I not know about this book?

Why is it not more popular here?

Is this something you recently discovered, Veeky Forums? Is this book going to be forced a lot now and become a part of the meme trilogy? Meme tetralogy?

hes a meme who wrote a meme book

David "Foster" Wallace, a professional tennis player, oddball and water expert from Dallas, Fort Worth.

W&M has had cult status for hardcore readers of experimental/avant-garde literature since publication. It's been pretty popular among the small group of GR users who are members of the Buried Book Club for a good few years as well. I've been on Veeky Forums since the start and have to admit I've only noticed it being actively mentioned around here in the past six months along with some other stuff the BBC has been plugging away at for years (like Milkbottle H).

the BBC plugs your moms asshole too

Hahaha great interjection
Well played friendo

Ta.

Jamal.....

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top fucking kek matey

Hey. Hey guys.

Bump.

link to that thread pls?

It was a few months back.

cite?

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holy shit this thread is gold

bump
I would also like to see the thread about black user stealing library books.

dab

please cast it into the sea in a sealed box

sounds to me like this man is part of a group trying to hide this holy grail from the general public

your time is up, thought nazi

why is the book so expensive

idiot

because it's really good

is there a list of all the BBC books anywhere?

I knew Veeky Forums was a cuck board but holy shit

big LOL

every word is worth like 50 cents

look at my dab! (bitch, dab)

stop

I meant beyond the list of authors on the goodreads. Now knowing everything from a board of obscure avant-garde writers isn't a big enough deal to be an asshole.

My post was made as a joke because "BBC books" can mean "Big Black Cocks" books which /pol/ hates thus cuck jokes. It's a /pol/ joke.

you suck

Borges is that you?